Creating Character Arcs: The Masterful Author's Guide to Uniting Story Structure, Plot, and Character Development

When Welland goes to examples from such drivel as Marvel's The Mighty Thor and Pixar's Cars, it seems like a how-to-book for future pop culture creators or young studio execs who need to keep busy giving notes. Is the bar really this low?

What of Bogart's Rick in Casablanca? What about Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovic? Dustin Hoffman in the Graduate? There are hundreds of great examples from brilliant films, let's start at the top and work our way down to the kiddie section.

Character analysis mastery!

There are dozens of books on character building, but this book shows how your character faces the challenges in your story.

This is the first time I heard the voice of Sonja Field.

This book equipped me with the tools necessary to help my characters fulfill their purpose in my novels.

Before you publish your novel, read this book!

I'm so thankful for this book. The information was clear and understandable, there were a lot of examples and I loved the question at the end of each chapter. They made me think as I was listening and ultimately saved my novel from the trash folder (figuratively, I'd never actually toss it out permanently.)
There is a lot of repeated information from Structuring Your Novel, but I read this one first, and now that I have read that one I think this is ultimately the better book. I can't wait until the workbook is released.

While there were some good ideas and some good advice in this book, the points that were made and many of the examples seemed contrived.

This book is a great listen for any Writer who wants to improve their craft.

very helpful much thanks I'll continue to listen for a better understand of story. awesome listen

Author KM Weiland has a way of distilling the art of storytelling down to the essentials in easily digestible bits. Any writer will benefit from the advice and structure presented in this guide.

Never

Anything else

Possibly

All of them

This is a book for hacks, not for writers looking to pursue a serious expansion of their skills or craft. It is a base level, bullet point list of formulaic approaches to writing. If you want to write commercial fiction to sell in grocery store magazine racks, or are just starting out and don't know what a character arc is, this is a good place to start. If you understand the concepts of plot, character, and story structure, this title has nothing to offer you other than aggravation.